This worksheet adapts the framework in the six levels episode. It’s a new written companion, not an installable agent or a promise that you need to climb every level.
Locate one task
Choose something familiar, such as preparing a weekly project update. Describe what happens today.
- Conversation: I paste notes in and copy a draft out.
- Tools: It can read an approved project file directly.
- Continuity: It has a saved example and instructions for my preferred update.
- Specialists: Separate roles draft and review; I pass the work between them.
- Coordination: A lead role manages those handoffs.
- Bounded autonomy: It prepares work between reviews, inside limits I set.
You might use more than one pattern. Name the parts you have actually tried, rather than the parts you understand in theory.
Fill in your brief
| Decision | Your answer |
|---|---|
| The task and who benefits | |
| The part I keep repeating by hand | |
| The smallest change that might help | |
| The exact files or information it needs | |
| What it may change without asking | |
| Where it must stop for my review | |
| Time or spending limit | |
| The evidence that would count as success |
For the project-update example, a small step might be allowing it to read one copied notes file and save a draft beside it. You still review every claim before sharing. No sending permission is needed to test whether preparing the draft helps.
Ask for a bounded trial
Help me test one small increase in AI assistance for this task.
Task:
Current process:
The repeated work I want help with:
Material I can share:
Time or spending limit:
Propose the simplest trial using only that material. Tell me what access it
requires. Separate actions you can take from actions that need my review.
Define an observable success check and a stopping condition before starting.
Do not connect accounts, send messages, buy anything, or change originals as
part of proposing the trial.Then decide whether to run the proposed trial. A useful prompt doesn’t itself restrict an app’s permissions; use the actual access settings to match the boundary you chose.
Review after one rep
Compare the result with the source. Count correction and coordination time as part of the effort. Keep the change only if the benefit is worth those costs. A simpler workflow that you can check is a perfectly good destination.